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What should I do if I have postpartum fever and breast blockage?

Therefore, Jiang Yu resolutely decided to give Yuezi's mother home diagnosis and treatment. Coming to the home of the confinement mother, through consultation and physical examination, Jiang Yu learned that the confinement mother had no contact history with high-risk epidemic areas, no respiratory infection symptoms, induration of the breast, redness and swelling, high skin temperature, normal vaginal lochia, and no abnormalities in perineal wounds.

Jiang Yu judged that the cause of the fever was the initial stage of mastitis and suggested:

1. Oral cefixime 100 mg, 2 times a day, dandelion 30 g, brew water as tea.

2. Breastfeeding guidance: strengthen breastfeeding.

3. Breast unclogging manual treatment + external application of traditional Chinese medicine.

4. Dietary guidance: eat a light diet, temporarily reduce the amount of soup to drink, and avoid taking a sweet wine alcoholic diet. While giving the above suggestions for the first confinement mother, pay attention to alleviating the worries and anxieties of the confinement mother, enhance her confidence in treating the disease and continuing breastfeeding, according to the situation of the confinement mother, send the breast teacher Zhou Fang to mix homemade external Chinese medicine to do breast dredging for the patient, and soon, the confinement mother is comfortable and the baby is fed.

What should I do if I have postpartum fever and breast blockage?

(Zhou Fang's bedside for confinement mother breast dredging)

Obstetrician and gynecologist of Changsha City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine friendly remind confinement mothers, how to break the common misunderstanding of breastfeeding?

1, worried that the drug has an impact on breast milk, do not dare to use any medicine, in fact, cephalosporin antibiotics [no allergies], dandelion and other traditional Chinese medicine can be safely used.

2. Postpartum fever, dare not breastfeed, in fact, the body temperature below 38.5 degrees can continue to breastfeed, otherwise the problem of breast stasis is more serious.

3, there is milk stasis, hurry up the hot compress, in fact, the principle of hot expansion and cold contraction we do not engage in reverse, acute period cold compress is appropriate.

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